Hame attachment



(,No Model.)

J. C. MQGALLMAN & W. A. HUTOHINSON.

HAME ATTACHMENT.

No. 374,983. Patented Dec 20. 1887.

Mum I I! ummumlmmim l I WL'ZnesseJ. Inventors".

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES C. MOOALLMAN AND WVILLIAM A. HUIOHINSON, OF DOVESVILLE, SOUTHCAROLINA.

HAME ATTACHMENT.

EPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 374,983, dated December20, 1887.

Application filed April 25, 1887. Serial No. 236,109. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, JAMES C. ll/ICCALLMAN and WILLIAM A. HUTOHINSON,citizens of the United States, residing at Dovesville, in the county ofDarlington and State of South Carolina, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Harrie-Connections; and we do declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings,and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which formapartof this specification.

The invention will first be described in connection with the drawings,and then pointed out in the claim.

Figure 1 of the dral ings is a perspective View of our invention; Fig.2, a detail plan view of the hook, and Fig. 3 a similar view of thehame-plate.

In the drawings, A represents our harnehook, having the broad shank arabbeted at a, and B the ha1ne-plate,which is provided with the integralstrip I), raised above the plate a little more than the thickness of theshank a, but less so than the part-a"', so that the book A may be slidback and removed, while it cannot come out in front on account of therabbet or shoulder a. The plate B has four holes, b,by which it may bescrewed or otherwise fastened to the harne,which is generally made ofwood, while the hook has a downward right-angled bend, a to prevent thetrace from coming out. It will thus be seen that the hook, which isoften broken or wears out, can be readily removed and replaced by anewone. If desired, a small spring may be placed on the hame and under theslots of plate B; but it is not necessary to the Working of ourinvention. 40

Our invention dispenses entirely with the staple usually employed, thesame being passed through the hame and clinched on the inside. In takingout the staple, which weakens the hame, the latter is torn and generallybroken.

Having thus described all that is necessary to a full understanding ofour invention, what we claim as new, and desire to protect by LettersPatent, is-

The hereindescribcd improvement in hameattachments, consisting of thehook A, having the shoulder a on its shank, and the plate B, having theraised strip 12', substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereofwe affix our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

JAMES o. MGGALLMAN. WILLIAM A. HUTGHINSON.

Witnesses:

W. A. PAEROTT, G. M. BOYD.

